| Evidence: | 'The reading of the "White Bird", apart from the sheer pleasure your work always gives, had a special interest for me as demonstrating once more your wonderful power to deal with fanciful and delicate conceptions; something much too perfect to be called skill.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 23 Nov 1903 and 31 Dec 1903 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Stanford near Hythe county: Kent specific address: Pent Farm |
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| Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 3 Dec 1857 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Master mariner and author |
| Religion: | originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist |
| Country of origin: | Poland |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | J.[James] M.[Matthew] Barrie |
| Title: | The Little White Bird |
| Genre: | Fiction, History, Children's Lit |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20393 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 104 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to J.M.Barrie dated 31st December, 1903, Pent Farm. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 104, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20393, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| This novel includes an early version of what was to become 'Peter Pan' A footnote in the source text (fn.1, p.104 ) considers the genre to be fiction about children, not children's fiction. |
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